Volunteers run to aid Pamlico woman’s outreach ministry

More than 100 runners and walkers make their way through the streets of the Greenbrier neighborhood Saturday morning to raise money for the New Outreach Deliverance Ministry.

Charlie Hall/Sun Journal

By Charlie Hall, Sun Journal Staff

Published: Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 04:54 PM.

Elizabeth Green has been helping the needy for 10 years through her New Outreach Deliverance Ministry, which provides food and clothing, along with spiritual and financial counseling.

Located at 1116 S. Glenburnie Road in New Bern, it has been the vision and passion of Green, a resident of the Pamlico County community of the name Pamlico — site of its share of woes during hurricanes.

Early Saturday morning, more than 100 runners and walkers gathered outside the Emerald Golf Club, with 5K and 10K events benefiting her ministry.

Whit Whitley, of the lead sponsor Whitley Law Firm, said he knew a secret about Green, which was one of the motivating factors for his family’s firm putting together the first ever “Run for the Green.”

“Instead of just retiring, this woman took half of her Social Security check and with the help of her daughters and volunteers, chose to help the community,” he said prior to the walking and running events.

Green was proud that “they came to me and asked what they could do.”

“One of the things we learned about her was how selflessly she helps those who need help,” said Bob Whitley. “We have been blessed over the years with our success, so what better project than for us to help her?”

Elizabeth Green has been helping the needy for 10 years through her New Outreach Deliverance Ministry, which provides food and clothing, along with spiritual and financial counseling.

Located at 1116 S. Glenburnie Road in New Bern, it has been the vision and passion of Green, a resident of the Pamlico County community of the name Pamlico — site of its share of woes during hurricanes.

Early Saturday morning, more than 100 runners and walkers gathered outside the Emerald Golf Club, with 5K and 10K events benefiting her ministry.

Whit Whitley, of the lead sponsor Whitley Law Firm, said he knew a secret about Green, which was one of the motivating factors for his family’s firm putting together the first ever “Run for the Green.”

“Instead of just retiring, this woman took half of her Social Security check and with the help of her daughters and volunteers, chose to help the community,” he said prior to the walking and running events.

Green was proud that “they came to me and asked what they could do.”

“One of the things we learned about her was how selflessly she helps those who need help,” said Bob Whitley. “We have been blessed over the years with our success, so what better project than for us to help her?”

Green said she had “a vision that I was needed” after years of doing nursing assistant work in home health care.

“It is a ministry for local people who just don’t have,” she said of the 2004 start to her ministry.

“We started with clothing and, a year later, the Lord blessed us and the Food Bank truck would come in every first Tuesday of the month,” she said.

Green said she doesn’t think enough people realize how many local residents are in need.

“I don’t, I really don’t they think do, because every day that we are there, someone comes in for food or clothes,” she said. “We get donations, nice clothes. But, if there wasn’t need, I wouldn’t have people coming in.”

The ministry is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

More than 300 people come through the doors each month.

To donate or volunteer, call 288-5362.

Charlie Hall can be reached at 252-635-5667 or charlie.hall@newbernsj.com.